Motivational Quotes

Music

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

- Jackson, Michael

Best Quotes about Music

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

Ed Gardner

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Einstein, Albert

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity --where energies flow smoothly in one direction --there will be much doing but no music.

Hoffer, Eric

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I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.

Hesse, Hermann

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Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

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Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Raitt, Bonnie

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Plato

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.

West, Rebecca

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Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Homer

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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

Stravinsky, Igor

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

31.

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Packard, Vance

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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

34.

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.

Schnabel, Artur

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

Woody Allen

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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Cocteau, Jean

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They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.

Stevens, Wallace

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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William